Psalms 64

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.

To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice, in my (meditation) From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life,

2 Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.

Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.

3 For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow — a bitter word.

4 To shoot in secret the undefiled.

To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

5 They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'

6 They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart [are] deep.

7 And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

8 And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;

And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

9 And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God: and understood his doings.

And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed they have considered wisely.

10 The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.

The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!